path: root/ChangeLog.2008

2008-12-21  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

	*** 8.5.6 TAGGED FOR RELEASE ***

	* generic/tcl.h:	Bump to 8.5.6 for release.
	* library/init.tcl:
	* tools/tcl.wse.in:
	* unix/configure.in:
	* unix/tcl.spec:
	* win/configure.in:
	* README:

	* unix/configure:	autoconf-2.59
	* win/configure:

	* changes:	Update for 8.5.6 release.

	* library/tclIndex: Removed reference to no-longer-extant procedure
	'tclLdAout'.
	* doc/library.n: Corrected mention of 'auto_exec' to 'auto_execok'.
	[Patch 2114900] thanks to Stu Cassoff <stwo@users.sf.net>
	Backport of 2008-11-26 commit from Kevin Kenny.

	* win/tclWinThrd.c (TclpThreadCreate): We need to initialize the
	thread id variable to 0 as on 64 bit windows this is a pointer sized
	field while windows only fills it with a 32 bit value. The result is
	an inability to join the threads as the ids cannot be matched.
	Backport of 2008-10-13 commit from Pat Thoyts.

2008-12-15  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

	* generic/tclExecute.c (TEBC:INST_DICT_GET): Make sure that the result
	is empty when generating an error message. [Bug 2431847]

2008-12-12  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

	* library/clock.tcl (ProcessPosixTimeZone): Fix time change in Eastern
	Europe (not 3:00 but 4:00 local time). [Bug 2207436]

2008-12-11  Andreas Kupries  <andreask@activestate.com>

	* generic/tclIO.c (SetChannelFromAny and related): Modified the
	* tests/io.test: internal representation of the tclChannelType to
	contain not only the ChannelState pointer, but also a reference to
	the interpreter it was made in. Invalidate and recompute the
	internal representation when it is used in a different interpreter,
	like cmdName intrep's. Added testcase. [Bug 2407783]

2008-12-11  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

	* library/clock.tcl (ProcessPosixTimeZone): Fallback to European time
	zone DST rules, when the timezone is between 0 and -12. [Bug 2207436]
	* tests/clock.test (clock-52.[23]): Test cases for [Bug 2207436]

2008-12-10  Kevin B. Kenny  <kennykb@acm.org>

	* library/tzdata/*: Update from Olson's tzdata2008i.

2008-12-04  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

	* generic/tclPathObj.c (Tcl_FSGetNormalizedPath):	Added another
	flag value TCLPATH_NEEDNORM to mark those intreps which need more
	complete normalization attention for correct results. [Bug 2385549]

2008-12-03  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

	* generic/tclFileName.c (DoGlob):    One of the Tcl_FSMatchInDirectory
	calls did not have its return code checked. This caused error messages
	returned by some Tcl_Filesystem drivers to be swallowed.

2008-12-02  Andreas Kupries  <andreask@activestate.com>

	* generic/tclIO.c (TclFinalizeIOSubsystem): Replaced Alexandre
	Ferrieux's first patch for [Bug 2270477] with a gentler version, also
	supplied by him.

2008-12-01  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

	* generic/tclParse.c:	Backport fix for [Bug 2251175].

2008-11-30  Kevin B. Kenny  <kennykb@acm.org>

	* library/clock.tcl (format, ParseClockScanFormat): Added a [string
	map] to get rid of namespace delimiters before caching a scan or
	format procedure. [Bug 2362156]
	* tests/clock.test (clock-64.[12]): Added test cases for the bug that
	was tickled by a namespace delimiter inside a format string.

2008-11-25  Andreas Kupries  <andreask@activestate.com>

	* generic/tclIO.c (TclFinalizeIOSubsystem): Applied Alexandre
	Ferrieux's patch for [Bug 2270477] to prevent infinite looping during
	finalization of channels not bound to interpreters.

2008-08-23  Andreas Kupries  <andreask@activestate.com>

	* generic/tclIO.c: Backport of fix for [Bug 2333466].

2008-11-18  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

	* generic/tcl.decls:	Fix signature and implementation of
	* generic/tclDecls.h:	Tcl_HashStats, such that it conforms to the
	* generic/tclHash.c:	documentation. [Bug 2308236]
	* doc/Hash.3:

2008-11-13  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

	* generic/tclInt.h:	Rename static function FSUnloadTempFile to
	* generic/tclIOUtil.c:	TclFSUnloadTempFile, needed in tclLoad.c

	* generic/tclLoad.c:	Fixed [Bug 2269431]: Load of shared
				objects leaves temporary files on windows.

2008-11-10  Andreas Kupries  <andreask@activestate.com>

	* doc/platform_shell.n: Fixed [Bug 2255235], reported by Ulrich
	* library/platform/pkgIndex.tcl: Ring <uring@users.sourceforge.net>.
	* library/platform/shell.tcl: Updated the LOCATE command in the
	* library/tm.tcl:   package 'platform::shell' to handle the new form
	* unix/Makefile.in: of 'provide' commands generated by tm.tcl. Bumped
	* win/Makefile.in:  package to version 1.1.4. Added cross-references
	to the relevant parts of the code to avoid future desynchronization.

2008-11-04  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>

	* generic/tclPort.h: Remove the ../win/ header dir as the build system
	already has it, and it confuses builds when used with private headers
	installed.

2008-10-24  Pat Thoyts  <patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net>

	* library/http/http.tcl: Backported a fix for reading HTTP-like
	protocols that used to work and were broken with http 2.7. Now http
	2.7.2

2008-10-23  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

	* generic/tcl.h:	Bump version number to 8.5.6b1 to distinguish
	* library/init.tcl:	CVS development snapshots from the 8.5.5 and
	* unix/configure.in:	8.5.6 releases.
	* unix/tcl.spec:
	* win/configure.in:
	* tools/tcl.wse.in:
	* README

	* unix/configure:	autoconf (2.59)
	* win/configure:

2008-10-19  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

	* generic/tclProc.c:	Reset -level and -code values to defaults
	after they are used. [Bug 2152286]

2008-10-16  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

	* library/init.tcl:	Revised [unknown] so that it carefully
	preserves the state of the ::errorInfo and ::errorCode variables at
	the start of auto-loading and restores that state before the
	autoloaded command is evaluated. [Bug 2140628]

2008-10-10  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

	*** 8.5.5 TAGGED FOR RELEASE ***

	* generic/tcl.h:	Bump to 8.5.5 for release.
	* library/init.tcl:
	* tools/tcl.wse.in:
	* unix/configure.in:
	* unix/tcl.spec:
	* win/configure.in:

	* unix/configure:	autoconf-2.59
	* win/configure:

	* changes:	Update for 8.5.5 release.

2008-10-08  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

	* generic/tclTrace.c:	Corrected handling of errors returned by
	variable traces so that the errorInfo value contains the original
	error message. [Bug 2151707]

	* generic/tclVar.c:	Revised implementation of TclObjVarErrMsg so
	that error message construction does not disturb an existing
	iPtr->errorInfo that may be in progress.

2008-10-06  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>

	* tclWinTest.c: Fix compiler warning when compiling this file with
	mingw gcc:
	    tclWinTest.c:706: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will
	    break strict-aliasing rules
	* generic/tclLoad.c: Make sure that any library which doesn't have an
	unloadproc is only really unloaded when no library code is executed
	yet. [Bug 2059262]

2008-10-06  Joe Mistachkin  <joe@mistachkin.com>

	* tools/man2tcl.c: Added missing line from patch by Harald Oehlmann.
	[Bug 1934200]

2008-10-05  Kevin B, Kenny  <kennykb@acm.org>

	* libtommath/bn_mp_sqrt.c (bn_mp_sqrt): Handle the case where a
	* tests/expr.test (expr-47.13):		number's square root is
	between n<<DIGIT_BIT and n<<DIGIT_BIT+1. [Bug 2143288]
	Thanks to Malcolm Boffey (malcolm.boffey@virgin.net) for the patch.

2008-10-02  Joe Mistachkin  <joe@mistachkin.com>

	* tools/man2help2.tcl: Integrated patches from Harald Oehlmann.
	* tools/man2tcl.c: [Bug 1934200, 1934272]

2008-09-27  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

	* generic/tclCmdIL.c (Tcl_LrepeatObjCmd): Improve the handling of the
	case where the combination of number of elements and repeat count
	causes the resulting list to be too large. [Bug 2130992]

2008-09-25  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

	* doc/global.n:	Correct false claim about [info locals].

2008-09-17  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

	* generic/tclInt.h: Correct the TclGetLongFromObj, TclGetIntFromObj,
	and TclGetIntForIndexM macros so that they retrieve the longValue
	field from the internalRep instead of casting the otherValuePtr field
	to type long.

2008-09-17  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>

	* library/init.tcl: Export min and max commands from the mathfunc
	namespace. [Bug 2116053]

2008-09-10  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

	* generic/tclListObj.c (Tcl_ListObjGetElements): Make this list->dict
	transformation - encountered when using [foreach] with dicts - not as
	expensive as it was before. Spotted by Kieran Elby and reported on
	tcl-core.

2008-09-07  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>

	* doc/namespace.n: Fix [Bug 2098441]

2008-08-28  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

	* generic/tcl.h:	Bump version number to 8.5.5b1 to distinguish
	* library/init.tcl:	CVS development snapshots from the 8.5.4 and
	* unix/configure.in:	8.5.5 releases.
	* unix/tcl.spec:
	* win/configure.in:
	* tools/tcl.wse.in:
	* README

	* unix/configure:	autoconf-2.59
	* win/configure:

2008-08-22  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

	* generic/tclUtil.c (TclReToGlob):	Added missing set of the
	*exactPtr value to really fix [Bug 2065115]. Also avoid possible
	DString overflow.
	* tests/regexpComp.test:	Correct duplicate test names.

2008-08-21  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>

	* tests/regexp.test, tests/regexpComp.test: Correct re2glob ***=
	* generic/tclUtil.c (TclReToGlob):	    translation from exact
	to anywhere-in-string match. [Bug 2065115]

2008-08-20  Daniel Steffen  <das@users.sourceforge.net>

	* generic/tclTest.c (TestconcatobjCmd):	Fix use of internal-only
	TclInvalidateStringRep macro. [Bug 2057479]

2008-08-17  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>

	* generic/tclTest.c (TestconcatobjCmd):
	* generic/tclUtil.c (Tcl_ConcatObj):
	* tests/util.test (util-4.7):
	Fix [Bug 1447328]; the original "fix" turned Tcl_ConcatObj() into a
	hairy monster. This was exposed by [Bug 2055782]. Additionally,
	Tcl_ConcatObj could corrupt its input under certain conditions!

	*** NASTY BUG FIXED ***

2008-08-14  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

	*** 8.5.4 TAGGED FOR RELEASE ***

	* tests/fileName.test:	Revise new tests for portability to case
	insensitive filesystems.

2008-08-14  Daniel Steffen  <das@users.sourceforge.net>

	* generic/tclCompile.h:		Add support for debug logging of DTrace
	* generic/tclBasic.c:		'proc', 'cmd' and 'inst' probes (does
					_not_ require a platform with DTrace).

	* generic/tclCmdIL.c (TclInfoFrame):	Check fPtr->line before
						dereferencing as line info may
						not exists when TclInfoFrame()
						is called from a DTrace probe.

	* tests/msgcat.test:		Fix for ::tcl::mac::locale with
					@modifier (HEAD backport 2008-06-01).

	* tests/fCmd.test (fCmd-6.23):	Made result matching robust when test
					workdir and /tmp are not on same FS.

	* unix/Makefile.in:		Ensure Makefile shell is /bin/bash for
	* unix/configure.in (SunOS):	DTrace-enabled build on Solaris.
					(followup to 2008-06-12) [Bug 2016584]

	* unix/tcl.m4 (SC_PATH_X):	Check for libX11.dylib in addition to
					libX11.so et al.

	* unix/configure: 		autoconf-2.59

2008-08-13  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

	* generic/tclFileName.c:	Fix for errors handling -types {}
	* tests/fileName.test:		option to [glob]. [Bug 1750300]
	Thanks to Matthias Kraft and George Peter Staplin.

2008-08-12  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

	* changes:	Update for 8.5.4 release.

2008-08-11  Pat Thoyts  <patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net>

	* library/http/http.tcl: Remove 8.5 requirement.
	* library/http/pkgIndex.tcl:
	* unix/Makefile.in:
	* win/Makefile.in:
	* win/makefile.vc:

2008-08-11  Andreas Kupries  <andreask@activestate.com>

	* library/tm.tcl: Added a 'package provide' command to the generated
	ifneeded scripts of Tcl Modules, for early detection of conflicts
	between the version specified through the file name and a 'provide'
	command in the module implementation, if any. Note that this change
	also now allows Tcl Modules to not provide a 'provide' command at all,
	and declaring their version only through their filename.

	* generic/tclProc.c (Tcl_ProcObjCmd): Fixed memory leak triggered by
	* tests/proc.test: procbody::test::proc. See [Bug 2043636]. Added a
	test case demonstrating the leak before the fix. Fixed a few spelling
	errors in test descriptions as well.

2008-08-11  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

	* library/http/http.tcl:	Bump http version to 2.7.1 to account
	* library/http/pkgIndex.tcl:	for [Bug 2046486] bug fix. This
	* unix/Makefile.in:		release of http now requires a
	* win/Makefile.in:		dependency on Tcl 8.5 to be able to
	* win/makefile.bc:		use the unsigned formats in the
	* win/makefile.vc:		[binary scan] command.

2008-08-11  Pat Thoyts  <patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net>

	* library/http/http.tcl: CRC field from zlib data should be treated as
	unsigned for 64bit support. [Bug 2046846]

2008-08-08  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

	* generic/tcl.h:	Bump to 8.5.4 for release.
	* library/init.tcl:
	* tools/tcl.wse.in:
	* unix/configure.in:
	* unix/tcl.spec:
	* win/configure.in:

	* unix/configure:	autoconf-2.59
	* win/configure:

	* changes:	Update for 8.5.4 release.

2008-08-08  Kevin Kenny  <kennykb@acm.org>

	* library/tzdata/CET:
	* library/tzdata/MET:
	* library/tzdata/Africa/Casablanca:
	* library/tzdata/America/Eirunepe:
	* library/tzdata/America/Rio_Branco:
	* library/tzdata/America/Santarem:
	* library/tzdata/America/Argentina/San_Luis:
	* library/tzdata/Asia/Karachi:
	* library/tzdata/Europe/Belgrade:
	* library/tzdata/Europe/Berlin:
	* library/tzdata/Europe/Budapest:
	* library/tzdata/Europe/Sofia:
	* library/tzdata/Indian/Mauritius:  Olson's tzdata2008e.

2008-08-06  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

	* generic/tclVar.c (TclLookupSimpleVar):  Retrieve the number of
	locals in the localCache from the CallFrame and not from the Proc
	which may have been mangled by a (broken?) recompile. Backport from
	the HEAD.

2008-08-04  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

	* generic/tclExecute.c: Stopped faulty double-logging of errors to
	* tests/execute.test:	stack trace when a compile epoch bump triggers
	fallback to direct evaluation of commands in a compiled script.
	[Bug 2037338]

2008-07-30  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

	* generic/tclBasic.c:	Corrected the timing of when the flag
	TCL_ALLOW_EXCEPTIONS is tested.

2008-07-29  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>

	* generic/tclExecute.c:  fix [Bug 2030670] that cause
	TclStackRealloc to panic on rare corner cases. Thx ajpasadyn for
	diagnose and patch.

2008-07-28  Andreas Kupries  <andreask@activestate.com>

	* generic/tclBasic.c: Added missing ref count when creating an empty
	string as path (TclEvalEx). In 8.4 the missing code caused panics in
	the testsuite. It doesn't in 8.5. I am guessing that the code path
	with the missing the incr-refcount is not invoked any longer. Because
	the bug in itself is certainly the same.

2008-07-25  Daniel Steffen  <das@users.sourceforge.net>

	* tests/info.test (info-37.0): Add !singleTestInterp constraint;
	(info-22.8, info-23.0): switch to glob matching to avoid sensitivity
	to tcltest.tcl line number changes, remove knownBug constraint, fix
	expected result. [Bug 1605269]

2008-07-25  Andreas Kupries  <andreask@activestate.com>

	* tests/info.test: Tests 38.* added, exactly testing the tracking of
	location for uplevel scripts.

	* generic/tclCompile.c (TclInitCompileEnv): Reorganized the
	initialization of the #280 location information to match the flow in
	TclEvalObjEx to get more absolute contexts.

	* generic/tclBasic.c (TclEvalObjEx): Moved the pure-list optimization
	out of the eval-direct code path to be done always, i.e. even when a
	compile is requested. This way we do not loose the association between
	#280 location information and the list elements, if any.

2008-07-23  Andreas Kupries  <andreask@activestate.com>

	* tests/info.test: Reordered the tests to have monotonously increasing
	numbers.

	* generic/tclBasic.c: Modified TclArgumentGet to reject pure lists
	* generic/tclCmdIL.c: immediately, without search. Reworked setup of
	* generic/tclCompile.c: eoFramePtr, doesn't need the line information,
	* tests/info.test: more sensible to have everything on line 1 when
	eval'ing a pure list. Updated the users of the line information to
	special case this based on the frame type (i.e.
	TCL_LOCATION_EVAL_LIST). Added a testcase demonstrating the new
	behaviour.

2008-07-22  Andreas Kupries  <andreask@activestate.com>

	* generic/tclBasic.c: Added missing function comments.

	* generic/tclCompile.c: Made the new TclEnterCmdWordIndex
	* generic/tclCompile.h: static, and ansified.

	* generic/tclBasic.c: Reworked the handling of bytecode literals for
	* generic/tclCompile.c: #280 to fix the abysmal performance for deep
	* generic/tclCompile.h: recursion, replaced the linear search through
	* generic/tclExecute.c: the whole stack with another hashtable and
	* generic/tclInt.h: simplified the data structure used by the compiler
	by using an array instead of a hashtable. Incidentially this also
	fixes the memory leak reported via [Bug 2024937].

2008-07-21  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

	* tests/encoding.test:  Make failing tests pass again. [Bug 1972867]

2008-07-21  Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com>

	* generic/tclBasic.c: Extended the existing TIP #280 system (info
	* generic/tclCmdAH.c: frame), added the ability to track the
	* generic/tclCompCmds.c: absolute location of literal procedure
	* generic/tclCompile.c: arguments, and making this information
	* generic/tclCompile.h: available to uplevel, eval, and
	* generic/tclInterp.c: siblings. This allows proper tracking of
	* generic/tclInt.h: absolute location through custom (Tcl-coded)
	* generic/tclNamesp.c: control structures based on uplevel, etc.
	* generic/tclProc.c:

2008-07-21  Pat Thoyts  <patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net>

	* generic/tclFCmd.c: Inodes on windows are unreliable [Bug 2015723]

2008-07-20  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

	* generic/tclDictObj.c (SetDictFromAny): Make the list->dict
	transformation a bit more efficient; modern dicts are ordered and so
	we can round-trip through lists without needing the string rep at all.
	* generic/tclListObj.c (SetListFromAny): Make the dict->list
	transformation not lossy of internal representations and hence more
	efficient. [Bug 2008248] (ajpasadyn) but using a more efficient patch.

2008-07-15  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

	* doc/DictObj.3: Fix error in example. [Bug 2016740]

2008-07-08  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

	* generic/tclGet.c:	Corrected out of date comments.

2008-07-07  Andreas Kupries  <andreask@activestate.com>

	* generic/tclCmdIL.c (InfoFrameCmd): Fixed unsafe idiom of setting
	the interp result found by Don Porter.

2008-07-07  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

	* doc/regexp.n, doc/regsub.n: Correct examples. [Bug 1982642]

2008-07-04  Joe English  <jenglish@users.sourceforge.net>

	* generic/tclEncoding.c(UtfToUtfProc): Avoid unwanted sign extension
	when converting incomplete UTF-8 sequences. See [Bug 1908443] for
	details.

2008-07-03  Andreas Kupries  <andreask@activestate.com>

	* generic/tclIORChan.c (InvokeTclMethod): Fixed the memory leak
	reported in [Bug 1987821]. Thanks to Miguel for the report and Don
	Porter for tracking the cause down.

2008-07-03  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

	* library/package.tcl:	Removed [file readable] testing from
	[tclPkgUnknown] and friends. We find out soon enough whether a file is
	readable when we try to [source] it, and not testing before allows us
	to workaround the bugs on some common filesystems where [file
	readable] lies to us. [Patch 1969717]

2008-06-29  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

	*** 8.5.3 TAGGED FOR RELEASE ***

	* generic/tcl.h:	Bump to 8.5.3 for release.
	* library/init.tcl:
	* tools/tcl.wse.in:
	* unix/configure.in:
	* unix/tcl.spec:
	* win/configure.in:

	* unix/configure:	autoconf-2.59
	* win/configure:

	* doc/ObjectType.3:	Updated documentation of the Tcl_ObjType
	struct to match expectations of Tcl 8.5 [Bug 1917650].

	* generic/tclPathObj.c:  Plug memory leak in [Bug 1999176] fix. Thanks
	Rolf Ade for detecting.

2008-06-28  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

	* generic/tclPathObj.c:	 Plug memory leak in [Bug 1972879] fix. Thanks
	to Rolf Ade for detecting and Dan Steffen for the fix. [Bug 2004654]

2008-06-26  Andreas Kupries  <andreask@activestate.com>

	* unix/Makefile.in: Followup to my change of 2008-06-25, make code
	generated by the Makefile and put into the installed tm.tcl
	conditional on interpreter safeness as well. Thanks to Daniel Steffen
	for reminding me of that code.

2008-06-25  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

	* changes:	Update for 8.5.3 release.

2008-06-25  Andreas Kupries  <andreask@activestate.com>

	* library/tm.tcl:   Modified the handling of Tcl Modules and of the
	* library/safe.tcl: Safe Base to interact nicely with each other,
	* library/init.tcl: enabling requiring Tcl Modules in safe
	* tests/safe.test:  interpreters. [Bug 1999119]

2008-06-25  Pat Thoyts  <patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net>

	* win/rules.vc:    Backported fix for dde/registry versions and
	* win/makefile.vc: the staticpkg build option

2008-06-24  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

	* generic/tclPathObj.c: Fixed some internals management in the "path"
	Tcl_ObjType for the empty string value. Problem led to a crash in the
	command [glob -dir {} a]. [Bug 1999176]

2008-06-23  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

	* generic/tclPathObj.c: Fixed bug in Tcl_GetTranslatedPath() when
	operating on the "Special path" variant of the "path" Tcl_ObjType
	intrep. A full normalization was getting done, in particular, coercing
	relative paths to absolute, contrary to what the function of producing
	the "translated path" is supposed to do. [Bug 1972879]

2008-06-19  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

	* changes:	Update for 8.5.3 release.

	* generic/tclInterp.c:	Fixed completely boneheaded mistake that
	* tests/interp.test:	[interp bgerror $slave] and [$slave bgerror]
	would always act like [interp bgerror {}]. [Bug 1999035]

	* tests/chanio.test:	Corrected flawed tests revealed by a -debug 1
	* tests/event.test:	-singleproc 1 test suite run.
	* tests/io.test:

2008-06-19  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

	* changes:	Updates for 8.5.3 release.

2008-06-17  Andreas Kupries  <andreask@activestate.com>

	* generic/tclClock.c (ClockConvertlocaltoutcObjCmd): Removed left
	over debug output.

2008-06-17  Andreas Kupries  <andreask@activestate.com>

	* doc/tm.n: Followup to changelog entry 2008-03-18 regarding
	::tcl::tm::Defaults. Updated the documentation to not only mention the
	new (underscored) form of environment variable names, but make it the
	encouraged form as well. [Bug 1914604]

2008-06-17  Kevin Kenny  <kennykb@acm.org>

	* generic/tclClock.c (ConvertLocalToUTC):
	* tests/clock.test (clock-63.1): Fixed a bug where the internal
	ConvertLocalToUTC command segfaulted if passed a dictionary without
	the 'localSeconds' key. To the best of my knowledge, the bug was not
	observable in the [clock] command itself.

2008-06-16  Andreas Kupries  <andreask@activestate.com>

	* generic/tclCmdIL.c (TclInfoFrame): Backport of fix made on the
	* tests/info.test: head branch :: Moved the code looking up the
	information for key 'proc' out of the TCL_LOCATION_BC branch to
	after the switch, this is common to all frame types. Updated the
	testsuite to match. This was exposed by the 2008-06-08 commit
	(Miguel), switching uplevel from direct eval to compilation. Fixes
	[Bug 1987851].

2008-06-12  Daniel Steffen  <das@users.sourceforge.net>

	* unix/Makefile.in:		Add complete deps on tclDTrace.h.

	* unix/Makefile.in:		Clean generated tclDTrace.h file.
	* unix/configure.in (SunOS):	Fix static DTrace-enabled build.

	* unix/tcl.m4 (SunOS-5.11): Fix 64bit amd64 support with gcc & Sun cc.
	* unix/configure: autoconf-2.59

	* macosx/Tcl.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj:	Add debug configs with gcov,
	and with corefoundation disabled; updates and cleanup for Xcode 3.1 and
	for Leopard.
	* macosx/Tcl.xcode/project.pbxproj:	Sync Tcl.xcodeproj changes.
	* macosx/README:			Document new build configs.

2008-05-26  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>

	* tests/io.test (io-53.9): Need to close chan before removing file.

2008-05-23  Andreas Kupries  <andreask@activestate.com>

	* win/tclWinChan.c (FileWideSeekProc): Accepted a patch by Alexandre
	Ferrieux <ferrieux@users.sourceforge.net> to fix the [Bug 1965787].
	'tell' now works for locations > 2 GB as well instead of going
	negative.

	* generic/tclIO.c (Tcl_SetChannelBufferSize): Accepted a patch by
	* tests/io.test: Alexandre Ferrieux <ferrieux@users.sourceforge.net>
	* tests/chanio.test: to fix the [Bug 1969953]. Buffersize outside of
	the supported range are now clipped to nearest boundary instead of
	ignored.

2008-05-22  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

	* generic/tclNamesp.c (Tcl_LogCommandInfo):	Restored ability to
	handle the argument value length = -1. Thanks to Chris Darroch for
	discovering the bug and providing the fix. [Bug 1968245]

2008-05-21  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

	* generic/tclParse.c (ParseComment):	The new TclParseAllWhiteSpace
	* tests/parse.test (parse-15.60):	routine has no mechanism to
	return the "incomplete" status of "\\\n" so calling this routine
	anywhere that can be reached within a Tcl_ParseCommand() call is a
	mistake. In particular, ParseComment() must not use it. [Bug 1968882]

2008-05-21  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

	* generic/tclNamesp.c (Tcl_SetNamespaceUnknownHandler): Corrected odd
	logic for handling installation of namespace unknown handlers which
	could lead too very strange things happening in the error case.

2008-05-16  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>

	* generic/tclCompile.c: Fix crash with tcl_traceExec. Found and fixed
	by Alexander Pasadyn. [Bug 1964803]

2008-05-07  Donal K. Fellows  <donal.k.fellows@man.ac.uk>

	* generic/tclCompCmds.c (TclCompileDictAppendCmd): Fix silly off-by
	one error that caused a crash every time a compiled 'dict append' with
	more than one argument was used. Found by Colin McCormack.

2008-04-26  Zoran Vasiljevic  <vasiljevic@users.sourceforge.net>

	* generic/tclAsync.c: Tcl_AsyncDelete(): panic if attempt to locate
	handler token fails. Happens when some other thread attempts to delete
	somebody else's token.

	Also, panic early if we find out the wrong thread attempting to delete
	the async handler (common trap). As, only the one that created the
	handler is allowed to delete it.

2008-04-24  Andreas Kupries  <andreask@activestate.com>

	* tests/ioCmd.test: Extended testsuite for reflected channel
	implementation. Added test cases about how it handles if the rug is
	pulled out from under a channel (= killing threads, interpreters
	containing the tcl command for a channel, and channel sitting in a
	different interpreter/thread.)

	* generic/tclIORChan.c: Fixed the bugs exposed by the new testcases,
	redone most of the cleanup and exit handling.

2008-04-15  Andreas Kupries  <andreask@activestate.com>

	* generic/tclIO.c (CopyData):	Applied another patch by Alexandre
	* io.test (io-53.8a):		Ferrieux <ferrieux@users.sf.net>,
	* chanio.test (chan-io-53.8a):	to shift EOF handling to the async
	part of the command if a callback is specified, should the channel be
	at EOF already when fcopy is called. Testcase by myself.

2008-04-14  Kevin B. Kenny  <kennykb@acm.org>

	* unix/tclUnixTime.c (NativeGetTime): Removed obsolete use of
	'struct timezone' in the call to 'gettimeofday'. [Bug 1942197]

	* tests/clock.test (clock-33.5, clock-33.5a, clock-33.8, clock-33.8a):
	Added comments to the test that it can fail on a heavily loaded
	system.

2008-04-11  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

	* generic/tcl.h:	Bump version number to 8.5.3b1 to distinguish
	* library/init.tcl:	CVS development snapshots from the 8.5.2 and
	* unix/configure.in:	8.5.3 releases.
	* unix/tcl.spec:
	* win/configure.in:
	* README

	* unix/configure:	autoconf (2.59)
	* win/configure:

2008-04-10  Andreas Kupries  <andreask@activestate.com>

	* generic/tclIOCmd.c (Tcl_FcopyObjCmd): Keeping check for negative
	values, changed to not be an error, but behave like the special value
	-1 (copy all, default).

	* tests/iocmd.test (iocmd-15.{12,13}): Removed.

	* tests/io.test (io-52.5{,a,b}): Reverted last change, added
	* tests/chanio.test (chan-io-52.5{,a,b}): comment regarding the
	meaning of -1, added two more testcases for other negative values,
	and input wrapped to negative.

2008-04-09  Andreas Kupries  <andreask@activestate.com>

	* tests/chanio.test (chan-io-52.5): Removed '-size -1' from test,
	* tests/io.test (io-52.5): does not seem to have any bearing, and was
	an illegal value.

	* generic/tclIOCmd.c (Tcl_FcopyObjCmd): Added checking of -size value
	* tests/ioCmd.test (iocmd-15.{13,14}): to reject negative values, and
	values overflowing 32-bit signed. Basic patch by Alexandre Ferrieux
	<ferrieux@users.sourceforge.net>, with modifications from me to
	separate overflow from true negative value. Extended testsuite. [Bug
	1557855]

2008-04-08  Andreas Kupries  <andreask@activestate.com>

	* tests/io.test (io-53.8): Fixed ordering of vwait and after
	cancel. cancel has to be done after the vwait completes.

2008-04-09  Daniel Steffen  <das@users.sourceforge.net>

	* tests/chanio.test (chan-io-53.8,53.9,53.10):	fix typo & quoting for
	* tests/io.test (io-53.8,53.9,53.10):		spaces in builddir path

2008-04-07  Andreas Kupries  <andreask@activestate.com>

	* tests/io.test (io-53.10): Testcase for bi-directionaly fcopy.
	* tests/chanio.test:
	* generic/tclIO.c: Additional changes to data structures for fcopy
	* generic/tclIO.h: and channels to perform proper cleanup in case
	of a channel having two background copy operations running as is
	now possible.

	* tests/io.test (io-53.10): Testcase for bi-directionaly fcopy.
	* generic/tclIO.c: Additional changes to data structures for fcopy
	and channels to perform proper cleanup in case of a channel having
	two background copy operations running as is now possible.

2008-04-07  Andreas Kupries  <andreask@activestate.com>

	* generic/tclIO.c (BUSY_STATE, CheckChannelErrors,
	TclCopyChannel): New macro, and the places using it. This change
	allows for bi-directional fcopy on channels. [Bug 1350564]. Thanks
	to Alexandre Ferrieux <ferrieux@users.sourceforge.net> for the
	patch.

2008-04-07  Reinhard Max  <max@suse.de>

	* generic/tclStringObj.c (Tcl_AppendFormatToObj): Fix [format {% d}]
	so that it behaves the same way as in 8.4 and as C's printf().
	* tests/format.test: Add a test for '% d' and '%+d'.

2008-04-05  Kevin B. Kenny  <kennykb@acm.org>

	* tests/chanio.test (chan-io-53.9):
	* tests/io.test (io-53.9): Made test cleanup robust against the
	possibility of slow process shutdown on Windows.

	* win/tcl.m4: Added -D_CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE and
	-DCRT_NONSTDC_NO_DEPRECATE to the MSVC compilation flags so that the
	compilation doesn't barf on perfectly reasonable Posix system calls.
	* win/configure: Manually patched (don't have the right autoconf to
	hand).

	* win/tclWinFile.c: (WinSymLinkDirectory): Fixed a problem that
	Tcl was creating an NTFS junction point (IO_REPARSE_TAG_MOUNT_POINT)
	but filling in the union member for a Vista symbolic link. We had
	gotten away with this error because the union member
	(SymbolicLinkReparseBuffer) was misdefined in this file and in the
	'winnt.h' in early versions of MinGW. MinGW 3.4.2 has the correct
	definition of SymbolicLinkReparseBuffer, exposing the mismatch,
	and making tests cmdAH-19.4.1, fCmd-28.*, and filename-11.* fail.

2008-04-04  Andreas Kupries  <andreask@activestate.com>

	* tests/io.test (io-53.9): Added testcase for [Bug 780533], based
	* tests/chanio.test: on Alexandre's test script. Also fixed problem
	with timer in preceding test, was not canceled properly in the ok case

2008-04-04  Andreas Kupries  <andreask@activestate.com>

	* generic/tclIORChan.c (ReflectOutput): Allow zero return from write
	when input was zero-length anyway. Otherwise keept it an error, and
	separate the message from 'written too much'.

	* tests/ioCmd.test (iocmd-24.6): Testcase updated for changed message.

	* generic/tclIORChan.c (ReflectClose): Added missing removal of the
	now closed channel from the reflection map. Before we could crash the
	system by invoking 'chan postevent' on a closed reflected channel,
	dereferencing the dangling pointer in the map.

	* tests/ioCmd.test (iocmd-31.8): Testcase for the above.

2008-04-03  Andreas Kupries  <andreask@activestate.com>

	* generic/tclIO.c (CopyData): Applied patch [Bug 1932639] to
	* tests/io.test: prevent fcopy from calling -command synchronously
	* tests/chanio.test: the first time. Thanks to Alexandre Ferrieux
	<ferrieux@users.sourceforge.net> for report and patch.

2008-04-02  Andreas Kupries  <andreask@activestate.com>

	* generic/tclIO.c (CopyData): Applied patch for fcopy problem [Bug
	780533], with many thanks to Alexandre Ferrieux
	<ferrieux@users.sourceforge.net> for tracking it down and providing a
	solution. Still have to convert his test script into a proper test
	case.

2008-04-01  Andreas Kupries  <andreask@activestate.com>

	* generic/tclStrToD.c: Applied patch for [Bug 1839067] (fp rounding
	* unix/tcl.m4:	       setup on solaris x86, native cc), provided by
	* unix/configure:      Michael Schlenker. configure regen'd.

2008-04-01  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

	* generic/tclStubLib.c (Tcl_InitStubs):	Added missing error message.
	* generic/tclPkg.c (Tcl_PkgInitStubsCheck):

2008-03-30  Kevin Kenny  <kennykb@acm.org>

	* generic/tclInt.h (TclIsNaN):
	* unix/configure.in: Added code to the configurator to check for a
			     standard isnan() macro and use it if one is
			     found. This change avoids bugs where the test of
			     ((d) != (d)) is optimized away by an
			     overaggressive compiler. [Bug 1783544]
	* generic/tclObj.c: Added missing #include <math.h> needed to locate
			    isnan() after the above change.

	* unix/configure: autoconf-2.61

	* tests/mathop.test (mathop-25.9, mathop-25.14): Modified tests to
	deal with (slightly buggy) math libraries in which pow() returns an
	incorrectly rounded result. [Bug 1808174]

2008-03-26  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

	*** 8.5.2 TAGGED FOR RELEASE ***

	* generic/tcl.h:	Bump to 8.5.2 for release.
	* library/init.tcl:
	* tools/tcl.wse.in:
	* unix/configure.in:
	* unix/tcl.spec:
	* win/configure.in:

	* unix/configure:	autoconf-2.59
	* win/configure:

	* changes:		Updated for 8.5.2 release.

2008-03-28  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

	* tests/fCmd.test: Substantial rewrite to use many more tcltest
	features. Great reduction in quantity of [catch] gymnastics. Several
	buggy tests fixed, including one where the result of the previous test
	was being checked!

2008-03-27  Kevin B. Kenny  <kennykb@acm.org>

	* library/tzdata/America/Marigot:
	* library/tztata/America/St_Barthelemy:
	* library/tzdata/America/Argentina/San_Luis:
	* library/tzdata/Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh:
	* library/tzdata/Asia/Kolkata:	(new files)
	* library/tzdata/America/Caracas:
	* library/tzdata/America/Havana:
	* library/tzdata/America/Santiago:
	* library/tzdata/America/Argentina/Buenos_Aires:
	* library/tzdata/America/Argentina/Catamarca:
	* library/tzdata/America/Argentina/Cordoba:
	* library/tzdata/America/Argentina/Jujuy:
	* library/tzdata/America/Argentina/La_Rioja:
	* library/tzdata/America/Argentina/Mendoza:
	* library/tzdata/America/Argentina/Rio_Gallegos:
	* library/tzdata/America/Argentina/San_Juan:
	* library/tzdata/America/Argentina/Tucuman:
	* library/tzdata/America/Argentina/Ushuaia:
	* library/tzdata/Asia/Baghdad:
	* library/tzdata/Asia/Calcutta:
	* library/tzdata/Asia/Damascus:
	* library/tzdata/Asia/Saigon:
	* library/tzdata/Pacific/Easter:
		Changes up to and including Olson's tzdata2008b.

2008-03-27  Daniel Steffen  <das@users.sourceforge.net>

	* unix/tcl.m4 (SunOS-5.1x): Fix 64bit support for Sun cc. [Bug
	1921166]

	* unix/configure: autoconf-2.59

2008-03-26  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

	* changes:		Updated for 8.5.2 release.

2008-03-24  Pat Thoyts  <patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net>

	* generic/tclBinary.c: [Bug 1923966] - crash in binary format
	* tests/binary.test:   Added tests for the above crash condition.

2008-03-21  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

	* doc/switch.n: Clarified documentation in respect of two-argument
	invokation. [Bug 1899962]

	* tests/switch.test: Added more tests of regexp-mode compilation of
	the [switch] command. [Bug 1854435]

2008-03-20  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

	* generic/tcl.h, generic/tclThreadAlloc.c: Tidied up the declarations
	of Tcl_GetMemoryInfo so that it is always defined. Will panic when
	called against a Tcl that was previously built without it at all,
	which is OK because that also indicates a serious mismatch between
	memory configuration options.

2008-03-19  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

	* generic/tcl.h, generic/tclThreadAlloc.c (Tcl_GetMemoryInfo): Make
	sure this function is available when direct linking. [Bug 1868171]

	* tests/reg.test (reg-33.14): Marked nonPortable because some
	environments have small default stack sizes. [Bug 1905562]

2008-03-18  Andreas Kupries  <andreask@activestate.com>

	* library/tm.tcl (::tcl::tm::UnknownHandler): Changed 'source' to
	'source -encoding utf-8'. This fixes a portability problem of Tcl
	Modules pointed out by Don Porter. By using plain 'source' we were at
	the mercy of 'encoding system', making modules less portable than they
	could be. The exact scenario: A writes a TM in some weird encoding
	which is A's system encoding, distributes it, and somewhere else it
	cannot be read/used because the system encoding is different. Forcing
	the use of utf-8 makes the module portable.

	***INCOMPATIBILITY*** for all Tcl Modules already written in non-utf-8
	compatible encodings.

2008-03-18  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

	* generic/tclExecute.c:	Patch from Miguel Sofer to correct the
	alignment of memory allocated by GrowEvaluationStack(). [Bug 1914503]

2008-03-18  Andreas Kupries  <andreask@activestate.com>

	* library/tm.tcl (::tcl::tm::Defaults): Modified handling of
	environment variables. Solution slightly different than proposed in
	the report. Using the underscored form TCLX_y_TM_PATH even if
	TCLX.y_TM_PATH exists. Also using a loop to cut prevent code
	replication. [Bug 1914604]

2008-03-16  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

	* generic/tclCompCmds.c (TclCompileDictForCmd): Correct the handling
	of stack space calculation (the jump pattern used was confusing the
	simple-minded code doing the calculations). [Bug 1903325]

	* doc/lreplace.n: Clarified documentation of what happens with
	negative indices. [Bug 1905809] Added example, tidied up formatting.

2008-03-14  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

	* generic/tclBasic.c (OldMathFuncProc):	Same workaround protection
	from bad TclStackAlloc() alignment. Thanks George Peter Staplin.

	* generic/tclCmdIL.c (Tcl_LsortObjCmd):	Use ckalloc() to allocate
	SortElement arrays instead of TclStackAlloc() which isn't getting
	alignment right. Workaround for [Bug 1914503].

2008-03-14  Reinhard Max  <max@suse.de>

	* generic/tclTest.c:  Ignore the return value of write() when we are
	* unix/tclUnixPipe.c: about to exit anyways.

2008-03-13  Daniel Steffen  <das@users.sourceforge.net>

	* unix/configure.in: Use backslash-quoting instead of double-quoting
	* unix/tcl.m4:	     for lib paths in tclConfig.sh. [Bug 1913622]
	* unix/configure:    autoconf-2.59

2008-03-13  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

	* changes:		Updated for 8.5.2 release.

	* generic/tclStrToD.c:	Resolve identifier conflict over "pow10" with
	libm in Cygwin and DJGPP. Thanks to Gordon Schumacher and Philip
	Moore. [Patch 1800636]

2008-03-12  Daniel Steffen  <das@users.sourceforge.net>

	* macosx/Tcl.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj:	Add support for Xcode 3.1
	* macosx/Tcl.xcodeproj/default.pbxuser:	CODE_SIGN_IDENTITY and
	* macosx/Tcl-Common.xcconfig:		'xcodebuild install'.

2008-03-12  Andreas Kupries  <andreask@activestate.com>

	* doc/info.n: Replaced {expand} with {*}.

2008-03-12  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>

	* unix/Makefile.in (install-libraries):	Bump http to 2.7
	* win/Makefile.in (install-libraries):	Added -myaddr option to allow
	* library/http/http.tcl (http::geturl):	control of selected socket
	* library/http/pkgIndex.tcl:		interface. [Bug 559898]
	* doc/http.n, tests/http.test:		Added -keepalive and
	-protocol 1.1 with chunked transfer encoding support. [Bug 1063703,
	1470377, 219225] (default keepalive is 0)
	Added ability to override Host in -headers. [Bug 928154]
	Added -strict option to control URL validation on per-call basis.
	[Bug 1560506]

2008-03-11  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>

	* library/http/http.tcl (http::geturl): Add -method option to support
	* tests/http.test (http-3.1):		http PUT and DELETE requests.
	* doc/http.n:				[Bug 1599901, 862554]

	* library/http/http.tcl: Whitespace changes, code cleanup. Allow http
	to be re-sourced without overwriting http state.

2008-03-11  Daniel Steffen  <das@users.sourceforge.net>

	* generic/tclEncoding.c (LoadEscapeEncoding): Avoid leaking escape
	sub-encodings, fixes encoding-11.1 failing after iso2022-jp loaded.
	[Bug 1893053]

	* macosx/tclMacOSXNotify.c: Avoid using CoreFoundation after fork() on
	Darwin 9 even when TclpCreateProcess() uses vfork().

	* macosx/Tcl.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj:	Add support for Xcode 3.1 and
	* macosx/Tcl.xcodeproj/default.pbxuser:	configs for building with
	* macosx/Tcl-Common.xcconfig:		gcc-4.2 and llvm-gcc-4.2.

	* unix/tclUnixPort.h:			Workaround vfork() problems in
						llvm-gcc-4.2.1 -O4 build.

	* unix/tclUnixPort.h:			Move MODULE_SCOPE compat
						define to top. [Bug 1911102]

	* macosx/GNUmakefile:			Fix quoting to allow paths
	* macosx/Tcl-Common.xcconfig:		to ${builddir} and
	* unix/Makefile.in:			${INSTALL_ROOT} to contain
	* unix/configure.in:			spaces.
	* unix/install-sh:
	* unix/tcl.m4:
	* tests/ioCmd.test:

	* unix/configure:			autoconf-2.59

	* unix/Makefile.in (install-strip):	Strip non-global symbols from
						dynamic library.

	* unix/tclUnixNotfy.c:			Fix warning.

	* tests/exec.test (exec-9.7):		Reduce timing sensitivity
	* tests/socket.test (socket-2.11):	(esp. on multi-proc machines).

	* tests/fCmd.test (fCmd-9.4):		Skip on Darwin 9 (xfail).

2008-03-11  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>

	* generic/tclVar.c (TclDeleteNamespaceVars):
	* tests/var.test (var-8.2): Unset traces on vars should be called with
	a FQ named during namespace deletion. This was causing infinite loops
	when unset traces recreated the var, as reported by Julian Noble. [Bug
	1911919]

2008-03-10  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

	* changes:		Updated for 8.5.2 release.

	* doc/http.n:	Revised to indicate that [package require http 2.5.5]
	is needed to get all the documented commands ([http::meta]).

	* generic/tclEvent.c (TclDefaultBgErrorHandlerObjCmd):	Added error
	* tests/event.test (event-5.*):	checking to protect against callers
	passing invalid return options dictionaries. [Bug 1901113]

	* generic/tclBasic.c (ExprAbsFunc):	Revised so that the abs()
	* tests/expr.test:	function and the [::tcl::mathfunc::abs]
	command do not return the value of -0, or equivalent values with more
	alarming string reps like -1e-350. [Bug 1893815]

2008-03-07  Andreas Kupries  <andreask@activestate.com>

	* generic/tclResult.c (ReleaseKeys): Workaround for [Bug 1904907].
	Reset the return option keys to NULL to allow full re-initialization
	by GetKeys(). This introduces a memory leak for the key objects, but
	gets us around a crash in the finalization of reflected channels when
	handling returns, either at compile- or runtime. In both cases we
	access the keys after they have been released by their thread exit
	handler. A proper fix is entangled with the untangling of the
	finalization ordering and attendant issues. For now we choose the
	lesser evil.

2008-03-07  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

	* generic/tclExecute.c (Tcl_ExprObj):	Revised expression bytecode
	compiling so that bytecodes invalid due to changing context or due to
	the difference between expressions and scripts are not reused. [Bug
	1899164]

	* generic/tclCmdAH.c:	Revised direct evaluation implementation of
	[expr] so that [expr $e] caches compiled bytecodes for the expression
	as the intrep of $e.

	* tests/execute.test (execute-6.*):	More tests checking that
	script bytecode is invalidated in the right situations.

2008-03-07  Donal K. Fellows  <donal.k.fellows@man.ac.uk>

	* win/configure.in: Add AC_HEADER_STDC to support msys/win64.

2008-03-06  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

	* doc/namespace.n: Minor tidying up. [Bug 1909019]

2008-03-04  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

	* tests/execute.test (6.3,4):	Added tests for [Bug 1899164].

2008-03-03  Reinhard Max  <max@suse.de>

	* unix/tclUnixChan.c: Fix mark and space parity on Linux, which uses
	CMSPAR instead of PAREXT.

2008-03-02  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>

	* generic/tclNamesp.c (GetNamespaceFromObj):
	* tests/interp.test (interp-28.2): Spoil the intrep of an nsNameType
	obj when the reference crosses interpreter boundaries.

2008-02-29  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

	* generic/tclResult.c (Tcl_SetReturnOptions):	Revised the refcount
	management of Tcl_SetReturnOptions to become that of a conventional
	Consumer routine. Thanks to Peter Spjuth for pointing out the
	difficulties calling Tcl_SetReturnOptions with non-0-count value for
	options.
	* generic/tclExecute.c (INST_RETURN_STK): Revised the one caller
	within Tcl itself which passes a non-0-count value to
	Tcl_SetReturnOptions().

	* generic/tclBasic.c (Tcl_AppendObjToErrorInfo):	Revised the
	refcount management of Tcl_AppendObjToErrorInfo to become that of a
	conventional Consumer routine. This preserves the ease of use for the
	overwhelming common callers who pass in a 0-count value, but makes the
	proper call with a non-0-count value less surprising.
	* generic/tclEvent.c (TclDefaultBgErrorHandlerObjCmd):	Revised the
	one caller within Tcl itself which passes a non-0-count value to
	Tcl_AppendObjToErrorInfo().

2008-02-28  Joe English  <jenglish@users.sourceforge.net>

	* unix/tclPort.h, unix/tclCompat.h, unix/tclUnixChan.h: Reduce scope
	of <sys/filio.h> and <sys/ioctl.h> #includes. [Patch 1903339]

2008-02-28  Joe English  <jenglish@users.sourceforge.net>

	* unix/tclUnixChan.c, unix/tclUnixNotfy.c, unix/tclUnixPipe.c:
	Consolidate all code conditionalized on -DUSE_FIONBIO into one place.
	* unix/tclUnixPort.h, unix/tclUnixCompat.c: New routine
	TclUnixSetBlockingMode(). [Patch 1903339]

2008-02-28  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

	* generic/tclBasic.c (TclEvalObjvInternal):	Plug memory leak when
	an enter trace deletes or changes the command, prompting a reparsing.
	Don't let the second pass lose commandPtr value allocated during the
	first pass.

	* generic/tclCompExpr.c (ParseExpr):	Plug memory leak in error
	message generation.

	* generic/tclStringObj.c (Tcl_AppendFormatToObj): [format %llx $big]
	leaked an mp_int.

	* generic/tclCompCmds.c (TclCompileReturnCmd):	The 2007-10-18 commit
	to optimize compiled [return -level 0 $x] [RFE 1794073] introduced a
	memory leak of the return options dictionary. Fixing that.

2008-02-27  Pat Thoyts  <patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net>

	* library/http/http.tcl: [Bug 705956] - fix inverted logic when
	cleaning up socket error in geturl.

2008-02-27  Kevin B. Kenny  <kennykb@acm.org>

	* doc/clock.n: Corrected minor indentation gaffe in the penultimate
	paragraph. [Bug 1898025]
	* generic/tclClock.c (ParseClockFormatArgs): Changed to check that the
	clock value is in the range of a 64-bit integer. [Bug 1862555]
	* library/clock.tcl (::tcl::clock::format, ::tcl::clock::scan,
	(::tcl::clock::add, ::tcl::clock::LocalizeFormat): Fixed bugs in
	caching of localized strings that caused weird results when localized
	date/time formats were used. [Bug 1902423]
	* tests/clock.test (clock-61.*, clock-62.1): Regression tests for [Bug
	1862555] and [Bug 1902423].

2008-02-26  Joe English  <jenglish@users.sourceforge.net>

	* generic/tclIOUtil.c, unix/tclUnixPort.h, unix/tclUnixChan.c:
	Remove dead/unused portability-related #defines and unused conditional
	code. See [Patch 1901828] for discussion.

2008-02-26  Joe English  <jenglish@users.sourceforge.net>

	* generic/tclIORChan.c (enum MethodName),
	* generic/tclCompExpr.c (enum Marks): More stray trailing ","s

2008-02-26  Joe English  <jenglish@users.sourceforge.net>

	* unix/configure.in(socklen_t test): Define socklen_t as "int" if
	missing, not "unsigned". Use AC_TRY_COMPILE instead of
	AC_EGREP_HEADER.
	* unix/configure: regenerated.

2008-02-26  Joe English  <jenglish@users.sourceforge.net>

	* generic/tclCompile.h: Remove stray trailing "," from enum
	InstOperandType definition (C99ism).

2008-02-26  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>

	* generic/tclUtil.c (TclReToGlob): Fix the handling of the last star
	* tests/regexpComp.test:	   possibly being escaped in
	determining right anchor. [Bug 1902436]

2008-02-26  Pat Thoyts  <patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net>

	* library/http/pkgIndex.tcl: Set version 2.5.5
	* library/http/http.tcl:     It is better to do the [eof] check after
	trying to read from the socket. No clashes found in testing. Added
	http::meta command to access the http headers. [Bug 1868845]

2008-02-22  Pat Thoyts  <patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net>

	* library/http/pkgIndex.tcl: Set version 2.5.4
	* library/http/http.tcl:     Always check that the state array exists
	in the http::status command. [Bug 1818565]

2008-02-13  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

	* generic/tcl.h:	Bump version number to 8.5.2b1 to distinguish
	* library/init.tcl:	CVS development snapshots from the 8.5.1 and
	* unix/configure.in:	8.5.2 releases.
	* unix/tcl.spec:
	* win/configure.in:
	* README

	* unix/configure:	autoconf (2.59)
	* win/configure:

2008-02-12  Donal K. Fellows  <donal.k.fellows@man.ac.uk>

	* generic/tclCompCmds.c (TclCompileSwitchCmd): Corrected logic for
	* tests/switch.test (switch-10.15): handling -nocase compilation; the
	-exact -nocase option cannot be compiled currently. [Bug 1891827]

	* unix/README: Documented missing configure flags. [Bug 1799011]

2008-02-06  Kevin B. Kenny  <kennykb@acm.org>

	* doc/clock.n (%N): Corrected an error in the explanation of the %N
	format group.
	* generic/tclClock.c (ClockParseformatargsObjCmd):
	* library/clock.tcl (::tcl::clock::format):
	* tests/clock.test (clock-1.0, clock-1.4):
	Performance enhancements in [clock format] (moving the analysis of
	$args into C code, holding on to Tcl_Objs with resolved command names,
	[lassign] in place of [foreach], avoiding [namespace which] for
	command resolution).

2008-02-04  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

	*** 8.5.1 TAGGED FOR RELEASE ***

	* changes:		Updated for 8.5.1 release.

	* generic/tcl.h:	Bump to 8.5.1 for release.
	* library/init.tcl:
	* tools/tcl.wse.in:
	* unix/configure.in:
	* unix/tcl.spec:
	* win/configure.in:

	* unix/configure:	autoconf-2.59
	* win/configure:

2008-02-04  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>

	* generic/tclExecute.c (INST_CONCAT1): Fix optimisation for in-place
	concatenation (was going over String type)

2008-02-02  Daniel Steffen  <das@users.sourceforge.net>

	* unix/configure.in (Darwin):	Correct Info.plist year substitution
					in non-framework builds.

	* unix/configure:		autoconf-2.59

2008-01-30  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>

	* generic/tclInterp.c (Tcl_GetAlias): Fix for [Bug 1882373], thanks go
	to an00na.

2008-01-30  Donal K. Fellows  <donal.k.fellows@man.ac.uk>

	* tools/tcltk-man2html.tcl: Reworked manual page scraper to do a
	proper job of handling references to Ttk options. [Tk Bug 1876493]

2008-01-29  Donal K. Fellows  <donal.k.fellows@man.ac.uk>

	* doc/man.macros (SO, SE): Adjusted macros so that it is possible for
	Ttk to have its "standard options" on a manual page that is not called
	"options". [Tk Bug 1876493]

2008-01-25  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

	* changes:		Updated for 8.5.1 release.

2008-01-23  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

	* generic/tclInt.h:		New macro TclGrowParseTokenArray() to
	* generic/tclCompCmds.c:	simplify code that might need to grow
	* generic/tclCompExpr.c:	an array of Tcl_Tokens in the parsePtr
	* generic/tclParse.c:		field of a Tcl_Parse. Replaces the
	TclExpandTokenArray() routine via replacing:
		int needed = parsePtr->numTokens + growth;
		while (needed > parsePtr->tokensAvailable) {
		    TclExpandTokenArray(parsePtr);
		}
	with:
		TclGrowParseTokenArray(parsePtr, growth);
	This revision merged over from dgp-refactor branch.

	* generic/tclCompile.h:	Demote TclCompEvalObj() from internal stubs to
	* generic/tclInt.decls:	a MODULE_SCOPE routine declared in
	tclCompile.h.

	* generic/tclIntDecls.h:	make genstubs
	* generic/tclStubInit.c:

2008-01-22  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

	* generic/tclTimer.c (AfterProc):	Replace Tcl_EvalEx() with
	Tcl_EvalObjEx() to evaluate [after] callbacks. Part of trend to favor
	compiled execution over direct evaluation.

2008-01-22  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>

	* generic/tclCmdIl.c (Tcl_LreverseObjCmd):
	* tests/cmdIL.test (cmdIL-7.7): Fix crash on reversing an empty list.
	[Bug 1876793]

2008-01-20  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>

	* unix/README: Minor typo fixes [Bug 1853072]

	* generic/tclIO.c (TclGetsObjBinary): Operate on topmost channel.
	[Bug 1869405] (Ficicchia)

2008-01-17  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

	* generic/tclCompExpr.c:	Revision to preserve parsed intreps of
	numeric and boolean literals when compiling expressions with (optimize
	== 1).

2008-01-15  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>

	* generic/tclCompExpr.c: Add an 'optimize' argument to
	* generic/tclCompile.c:	 TclCompileExpr() to profit from better
	* generic/tclCompile.h:	 literal management according to usage.
	* generic/tclExecute.c:

	* generic/tclCompExpr.c: Fix literal leak in exprs [Bug 1869989] (dgp)
	* generic/tclExecute.c:
	* tests/compExpr.test:

	* doc/proc.n: Changed wording for access to non-local variables; added
	mention to [namespace upvar]. Lame attempt at dealing with
	documentation. [Bug 1872708]

2008-01-15  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>

	* generic/tclBasic.c:	 Replacing 'operator' by 'op' in the def of
	* generic/tclCompExpr.c: struct TclOpCmdClientData to accommodate C++
	* generic/tclCompile.h:	 compilers. [Bug 1855644]

2008-01-13  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>

	* win/tclWinSerial.c (SerialCloseProc, TclWinOpenSerialChannel): Use
	critical section for read & write side. [Bug 1353846] (newman)

2008-01-11  Miguel Sofer  <msofer@users.sf.net>

	* unix/tclUnixThrd.c (TclpThreadGetStackSize): Restore stack checking
	functionality in freebsd. [Bug 1850424]

	* unix/tclUnixThrd.c (TclpThreadGetStackSize): Fix for crash in
	freebsd. [Bug 1860425]

2008-01-10  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

	* generic/tclStringObj.c (Tcl_AppendFormatToObj):  Correct failure to
	* tests/format.test:	account for big.used == 0 corner case in the
	%ll(idox) format directives. [Bug 1867855]

2008-01-09  George Peter Staplin  <georgeps@xmission.com>

	* doc/vwait.n: Add a missing be to fix a typo.

2008-01-04  Jeff Hobbs  <jeffh@ActiveState.com>

	* tools/tcltk-man2html.tcl (make-man-pages): Make man page title use
	more specific info on lhs to improve tabbed browser view titles.

2008-01-02  Donal K. Fellows  <dkf@users.sf.net>

	* doc/binary.n: Fixed documentation bug reported on tcl-core, and
	reordered documentation to discourage people from using the hex
	formatter that is hardly ever useful.

2008-01-02  Don Porter  <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>

	* generic/tcl.h:	Bump version number to 8.5.1b1 to distinguish
	* library/init.tcl:	CVS development snapshots from the 8.5.0 and
	* unix/configure.in:	8.5.1 releases.
	* unix/tcl.spec:
	* win/configure.in:
	* README

	* unix/configure:	autoconf (2.59)
	* win/configure:

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